I tried that fix. I disabled my linux drive in device manager. But, the problem persists.
I guess a good question should be: How fast a hard drive and how fast a cpu do you need to run xp pro? I have a 1.1 gh Duron and an old hard drive. Maybe I just have cheap, old hardware. Joel didOn Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 05:14:54PM +0200, Hermann J. Beckers wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:01:12 -0400 - Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote the following > >I dual boot a lindows computer and XP Pro. > > > >Suddenly (in fact, after running the lindows 4.0 demo cdrom), XP pro loads > >and runs VERY slowly. The only other symptom is the fact the hard drive > >light, instead of flickering when it starts up, stays continuously red. > > > >XP has the HPFS/NTFS file system. > > > >My suspicion is that the hard drive, which is an old cast off, is > >the problem. Are there any tools in linux I could use to check out > >this drive? > > > Hi Joel, > > from a german linux-list (and memory): Seems XP tries to recognize the linux > partition(s) and that may be the reason for the slowdown. Look under -> > Computer administration -> volume administration: For your linux partition(s) > it should show "without error (unknown partition)" or something similiar. > Thats my translation from my german WinXP. > > hth > hjb > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
